Torah of Awakening Jewish Meditation Podcast

We tend to think of spiritual awakening as a kind of self-mastery, which is true, but that master image can create a sense of disappointment and resignation when comparing oneself to that ideal. But this is just another way for the ego to keep us trapped. The remedy? Forgive yourself for not being enlightened. In fact, this inner act of forgiveness is itself a direct path to enlightenment. This is...

We tend to see things that are painful, stressful, or even sensual and desirable all as obstacles to spiritual awakening. But this way of thinking is actually what keeps you stuck; whatever “obstacle” is in front of you is the portal to the Eternal, if you know how to unlock it. Learn more as we examine Parshat Pinkhas, followed by a guided meditation on the Hebrew letter Koof. Join the community...

There’s a kind of guidance that speaks to us through the reality of our situation, if we know how to listen. How to do we attune ourselves to these messages that we might call, Divine guidance? Teaching and guided meditation on Parshat Balak and the letter shin. Join the community for meditation 5 days a week, as well as lessons and courses on meditation, Judaism, Hebrew and more: https://www.tora...

When our sense of identity is dependent on external forms defined by our thoughts, we tend to grasp at an imagined future, barely conscious of the miracle of the present. But there is a deeper level to who we are, and to the degree that we can make contact with this deeper level, there is a Wholeness and a Rootedness that’s far greater than anything we can get from external changes of gratificatio...

The fruit of meditation could be described as a homecoming into the place you already are: the Holy Land of Presence. But there are obstacles. In Parshat Sh’lakh L’kha, the Children of Israel send out spies to check out the Holy Land. They bring back delicious fruits, but they’re too afraid of the giants they encountered there to give a good report. And just as the spies are fearful of the giants,...

Rabbi Brian Yosef Schachter-Brooks guides Hebrew chanting and meditation on the Hebrew letter ג gimel, awakening the sense of Wholeness and Completeness in the still field of awareness beneath your thoughts and feelings. This inner Stillness is sometimes called the Nefesh Elokit, your Divine Nature. Join the community for meditation 5 days a week, as well as classes for both children and adults: h...

Psychologically speaking, most of our lives are spent oriented toward the future, even if we’re not aware of it. As we go through our days, nearly all our activities are aimed at producing some result in the future, and whether were aiming at the next moment, the next week or ten years from now, the psychology is the same: we’re motivated to act for the sake of some future fulfillment. And of cour...

Rabbi Brian Yosef Schachter-Brooks guides Hebrew chanting and meditation on the Hebrew letter ס samech, pointing you toward the foundational support of your inner silence to set you free from inner noise and emotional reactivity. Join the community for meditation 5 days a week, as well as classes for both children and adults: https://www.torahofawakening.com #jewishmeditation #kabbalah #hebrewlett...

Learn how meditation frees us from negative reactivity, especially when you’re feeling attacked or accused by others. True spiritual strength is not the force of an ego defending itself, but rather, the capacity to rest in the silence and be aware of reactive feelings without needing to become them. Followed by a guided meditation on the Hebrew letter ס samech, which represents the foundational su...

Explore a gorgeous teaching from the Tanya on the connection between the messianic prophesies in Isaiah and the festival of Shavuot, and how they hint at the inner dimension of spirituality: perceiving the Divine in whatever is before us in the moment. And even deeper: recognizing our innermost selves as the boundless field of Divine consciousness that perceives. Followed by an experiential guided...

The Baal Shem Tov gives a simple and practical method to conect with the source of Torah within your own being. Beneath your thoughts & feelings is a radiant field of awareness, free from negativity and connected to the aliveness of the present moment. This is the heart of Judaism: Sh’ma – Listen! Through paying attention, you will come to know the Divine Oneness that permeates everything, fro...

Meditate with the "Three Portals of Presence" which help you transcend inner obstacles and experience your essence as spacious awareness, radiant, creative and free. “Spiritual Awakening” is the experiential realization that you are infinitely more than your thoughts and feelings. Beneath your personality is a vast field of awareness, free from negativity and connected to the aliveness of the pres...

This teaching of Rebbe Nachman hides the key for overcoming negativity and living a joyful, vibrant, healthy life. “Spiritual Awakening” is the experiential realization that you are infinitely more than your thoughts and feelings. Beneath your personality is a vast field of awareness, free from negativity and connected to the aliveness of the present moment. Discover inner freedom through Integral...

In this episode we unpack an incredible teaching of the Baal Shem Tov on the power of Presence and particularly sensory awareness for discerning direction and purpose in your life, followed by a guided meditation based on the Hebrew letter Ayin. Opening song Hashkiveinu and piano improvisation also by Rabbi Brian Yosef Schachter-Brooks. Hashkiveinu is from the album Ayn Od by BRIAH, and features t...

Free Jewish Meditation Instruction: https://www.torahofawakening.com Experience inner spaciousness and Divine connection with this guided meditation on the Tree of Life's sephirah of Netzach. Integral Jewish Kabbalah Meditation with Rabbi Brian Yosef Schachter-Brooks helps develop consciousness and awakens inner freedom, featuring transformative Torah teachings, Hebrew chanting, guided Jewish Kabb...

Learn Integral Jewish Meditation free: https://www.torahofawakening.com In this episode we explore a beautiful and incredibly helpful teaching from Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Shneerson about how meditation really comes in two different stages. If you understand these stages, then meditation is almost effortless, but if you don’t, it can seem almost impossible. We then dip in experientially through a guid...

Learn Integral Jewish Meditation free: https://www.torahofawakening.com Liberation in the external sense means escaping – getting away from the thing that you’re enslaved to, whether it be a relationship, a job, a situation, whatever. But spiritual liberation is the exact opposite, because it’s getting free from the need for things to be other than the way they are. In other words, it’s getting fr...

Learn Integral Jewish Meditation free: https://www.torahofawakening.com The Divine Presence is not something abstract. You can sense it directly by simply offering your attention to this moment as it is in all its fullness – in its beauty and ugliness, in its order and chaos. This is because the Divine Presence is not something other than your own attention, your own awareness, hearing these words...

Learn Integral Jewish Meditation free: https://www.torahofawakening.com To create inner space, you need to first bring awareness to whatever mental noise and emotional pain are cluttering up that space; the awareness transmutes the clutter. And what is awareness? Is it not the consciousness of Reality Itself, waking up in the universe through your nervous system? In other words, God? Create an inn...

Learn Integral Jewish Meditation free: https://www.torahofawakening.com There’s a huge difference between dabbling in different practices and actually making a home of your spiritual life in a solid tradition. And while dabbling might seem more freeing, there is a much deeper freedom that comes from giving up the seeking, and coming home to your essence within a committed community and practice. B...

Learn Integral Jewish Meditation free: https://www.torahofawakening.com If you search yourself, you can look everywhere and never find yourself, because of course, it’s your “self” that’s doing the looking. And, when you do find yourself as the one who is looking, meaning, when you find out that you are the field of awareness within which this moment arises, there is a tremendous relief and unburd...

Learn Integral Jewish Meditation free: https://www.torahofawakening.com   If you want to truly get free from the Egypt of emotional suffering, you have to first be fully present with the Egypt, meaning, bring your awareness deeply into those feelings that keep you enslaved – this is meditation. In this episode of the Torah of Awakening Jewish Meditation Podcast, you’ll get a taste of this freedom...

Learn the meditation featured in this video free: https://www.torahofawakening.com It is only through our struggling with our desires and other powerful unconscious impulses that our consciousness can expand beyond the ordinary limits of ego into an indescribable vastness and inner freedom. In this episode of the Torah of Awakening Jewish Meditation Podcast featuring the parsha of the week, you’ll...

Learn the meditation featured in this video free: https://integralkabbalah.com/guided-meditation The role of spiritual teacher is to remind you of your Divine potential, and then to show you the way to actualize that potential. In this episode of the Torah of Awakening Jewish Meditation Podcast, we’ll look at an amazing verse which accomplishes both of these things from parshat Vaera, followed a g...

Learn the meditation featured in this video free: https://integralkabbalah.com/guided-meditation When God is tells Moses to free the Israelites from Egypt, Moses resists: “I can’t do it - send somebody else!” God responds, Anokhi Ehyeh – “I will be with you.” And a bit earlier, when Moses asks God’s Name, the reply is the same: Ehyeh – “I Will Be.” In other words, God is Being. God is not a being,...